Lest you think Zoo Project is the only easily recognizable street artist in town, check out Némo.
He's a stencil artist whose trademark character is a silhouetted man in a trench coat and hat. The man often appears near a red umbrella and balloon, with other stenciled shapes and objects thrown in depending on the narrative of the piece.
There's an entire Flickr group devoted to Némo. Luckily we found out after having already taken our own pictures of his work, including this next one, which is one of our favorites from this entire trip.
Luckily for us, Némo seems particularly fond of decorating the many bare walls and deserted buildings of Belleville and Ménilmontant. He's been known to team up with Jérôme Mesnager to produce black-spy-vs.-white-spy type murals.
One of these days, maybe we'll catch Némo in the act just like we caught "Harry" of Zoo Project. Considering the scale of some of Némo's pieces, he must spend quite a bit of time stenciling and painting, so our odds might be good . . .
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Unrelated comment: Did you hear that Foucault's Pendulum in Paris was broken recently? Did you get to see it before it broke?
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Hey Tara! Thanks for posting this link - we can hardly believe it! Luckily we did get to see Foucault's Pendulum a few weeks ago (with Becky and Gladis, no less!), which means we were among the last to document its final days . . . you can see our pictures at http://panda-a-paris.blogspot.com/2010/05/musee-des-arts-et-metiers.html.
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